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Warwick Avenue is in Central London, and according to Duffy herself, she has “only been there twice, once by accident.” It’s a fairly undistinguished area that features a tube (train) station.
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About 30 miles east of Atlanta, Georgia, lies the quiet Pleasant Hill community, where their Baptist church maintains a land known as Sodom Cemetery. Most of the unmarked graves are assumed to be the final resting place of slaves.
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The distinctive sound owes to overdubs with an electric sitar:
My love is rotten to the core
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Just like I told you before
Yeah, before Van Halen – Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
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Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth wasn’t about loving the ladies in 1979, he was more interested in casual sex. In fact, he had a program: He’d give roadies passes and they’d put their initials on it, and whatever babe Dave ended up with, if it had a roadies initials, he’d give the guy $100.
David Lee Roth with two chicks. Who do you think he chose?
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A song about showing dominance over a woman, which soon became one of Van Halen’s most iconic. Eddie stated it was supposed to be a punk parody, “a stupid thing to us, just two chords”.
With our feet made muddy by your tributaries that trickle their way to the Chesapeake Defiance, Ohio – Oh! Susquehanna
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The Susquehanna is the longest river in the American east, and was once of great spiritual importance to the Algonquian tribes that inhabited the area, as well as followers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Today it is America’s most endangered river.
Read my palm and tell me, why do lovers come and go? Gin Blossoms – Mrs. Rita
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Mrs. Rita’s Palm Reading is located right in the middle of the Arizona State University’s campus (named The Normal School when Mrs. Rita moved in). Her palm reading business began in 1969 in a small clapboard house, where she still works today.
Union's been on strike, he's down on his luck
It's tough
So tough Bon Jovi – Livin’ On A Prayer
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Jon Bon Jovi hailed from working-class Sayreville, New Jersey. Despite making an effort towards redevelopment, including the incorporation of luxury apartment blocks and marinas, Sayreville remains largely an industrial town.
“Living On A Prayer” was Jovi’s statement about the dire economic situation of the borough during Reagan’s term in the White House.
Tommy’s “down on his luck” because of a workers' strike aimed to improve pay, working conditions, and rights for their members, and protest by not going to work. However, workers are not paid while they are striking, which puts people like Tommy at a financial disadvantage.
All the time in the world is all that's necessary The Strokes – All the Time
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Julian Casablancas is mesmerized by a woman (probably his wife Juliet Casablancas), and all the time in the world isn’t enough time to spend with her.
Julian and Juliet in 2011
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An allusion to The Strokes' First Impressions of Earth hit “You Only Live Once,” which was initially called “I’ll Try Anything Once.”
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